Quotes Tagged With :mathematician

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.....

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians....

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having....

Two writings of al-Hassār have survived. The first, entitled Kitāb al-bayān wa t-tadhkār [Book of....

If there is anything like a unifying aesthetic principle in mathematics, it is this: simple is beautiful.....

To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing....

The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great,....

People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring....

A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.

... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician’s art: asking simple and elegant questions....